A River View. 



Where the long reach of gravel and stranded 

 rocks stay their shoreward progress, the ceaseless 

 breaking of the wind-tossed waves is fitting music, 

 while it is yet winter. Such sound was truly out 



of tune and harsh, for nature everywhere was 

 rugged, and, by the river-shore, the plash of 

 troubled water its only proper spokesman. It has 

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